It didn’t start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land.

Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel–Palestine, Palestinian resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.

Una guida indispensabile per comprendere il conflitto israelo-palestinese e come potremmo ancora trovare una via d’uscita.
La devastazione del 7 ottobre 2023 e gli orrori che ne seguirono hanno sbalordito il mondo. Ma il conflitto israelo-palestinese non è iniziato il 7 ottobre.

Non è iniziato nemmeno nel 1967, quando Israele occupò la Cisgiordania, né nel 1948, quando fu dichiarato lo Stato di Israele. È iniziato nel 1882, quando i primi coloni sionisti arrivarono in quella che allora era la Palestina ottomana. Ilan Pappe dipana la storia di due popoli, che ora condividono un’unica terra.

Ritornando ai padri fondatori del sionismo, Pappe ci accompagna con perizia attraverso i meandri della politica internazionale nei confronti di Israele-Palestina, la resistenza palestinese all’occupazione e i cambiamenti in atto nello stesso Israele.

Breathing new life into these extraordinary events, Matyszak explains how the empire operated, deploying its incredibly military machine to conquer vast territory then naturalizing its subject peoples as citizens of Rome. It was a method of rule so sophisticated that loyalty to Rome remained strong even afters its collapse creating an expansive legacy that continues to this day.

The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind? Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

But she’s learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn’t have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever.

Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the unthinkable: the long journey of putting herself back together.